Department of Physics of Complex Systems

The Department of Physics of Complex Systems has research programs in applied physics, including optics (holography, image processing, non-linear effects in optical fibers, electro-optics, planar optics and ultrafast optics, atomic lithography and laser cooling, and trapping of atoms). In condensed matter, research is concentrated on theory and experiment (in particular micromagnetics, equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, crystal and thin film growth, clustering of data, protein folding, liquid crystals, colloids, complex fluids, flame and wet front propagation, and membranes). Experimental and theoretical hydrodynamics concentrates on spatio-temporal chaos, Rayleigh-Benard convection, and turbulence. String theory and conformal field theory, quantum chaos, and in physics of bio-systems are also studied.